- Authors:
- DOI:
- 10.1145/2818048.2819944
- Abstract:
- Sedentary work is a contributing factor to growing obesity levels worldwide. Research shows that step-counters can offer a way to motivate greater physical mobility. We present an in-situ study of a nation-wide workplace step-counting campaign. Our findings show that in the context of the workplace steps are a socially negotiated quantity and that participation in the campaign has an impact on those who volunteer to participate and those who opt-out. We highlight that specific health promotion initiatives do not operate in a vacuum, but are experienced as one out of many efforts offered to the employees. Using a social ecology lens we illustrate how conceptualizing a step-counting campaign as a health promotion rather than a behavior change effort can have implications for what is construed as success.
- ISBN:
- 9781450335928
- Type:
- Conference paper
- Language:
- English
- Published in:
- Proceedings of the 19th Acm Conference on Computer-supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 2016, p. 148-159
- Main Research Area:
- Science/technology
- Publication Status:
- Published
- Review type:
- Peer Review
- Conference:
- ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2016
- Publisher:
- Association for Computing Machinery
- Submission year:
- 2016
- Scientific Level:
- Scientific
- ID:
- 2304063686
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